Just had a brainwave...I finally believe I have figured out how the perfect game can be made. The key is mix all genres together. Firstly, it will be multiplayer(eventually all games will be). OK now for the mix:
RTS:It will be rts because a player will be elected as a leader, and he will set orders for his troops.However, it doesn't mean u need to be leader to have a taste of rts-it all depends on your rank...you can always give orders to soldiers with lower rank than you.
Action:However, each of the troops will be another human player(online), which turns it into an action game as they will be able to either view (and order) lots of troops at once in the rts respective, but he will also be able to zoom in and take control of his own character, just like in an action game. The fact that all players will be human means that there will be great variety in the way orders set by higher-rank people are accomplished-the pc AI would simply charge in the enemy base...
Driving(planes cars or anything):While in the action view, you will be able to turn the game into a racing game as driving any kind of vehichle will be as realistic and skill-requiring as need for speed or filght simulator...
RPG:You will be able to gain experience via completing orders, and rise in your rank. Even though at the beginning a leader is elected, he can be replaced if another player gathers more experience than him after a certain amount of time. Skills will also play a role as one might have such a good sneak skill that he can slip into enemy bases and listen to their plans...but he wouldn't do that unless he was ordered to...
Additional info:If a soldier disobeys orders but the result is positive, the leader/someone of higher rank will still be able to award him with some experience points. The person who set an order to a soldier will not know if the order wasn't completed or not until the soldier himself comes to report. An idea would be to let people speak(with microphones) instead of type, which would make it so real you would have like rumors that some soldier died going around in the camp...Soldiers should be able to change sides, at a great cost of experience, as they have to start again from the lower ranks and will be a bit unwelcome by the other side in the beginning.OK well my brain has run out of things to say...much more later I hope!
-john D.